Re: [bug #46007] texi2dvi Msys support

[Gavin Smith]

On 20 September 2015 at 21:40, Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> wrote:
> Certainly... probably I just edited the old code rather than copy-paste
> the new one...
>
>>
>> Anyway, the above obviously doesn't cater to MSYS, which is why I
>> believe you get the error message about missing TeX.
>>
>> About your patch: I think it's better to do this:
>>
>> MSYSTEM=$OSTYPE uname
>>
>> instead of saving and restoring MSYSTEM.  I don't think systems other
>> than MSYS will care.
>
> I agree. Is it possible in sh too to do it this way ?
>
> I have attached the updated patch as
> file #34939 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=34939>
>
> FYI, I have also open the question of what MikTeX is exactly doing on
> the MikTeX user mailing list
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/mailman/miktex-users/thread/DUB109-W135533811C5812A87D474E984470%40phx.gbl/#msg34476007
>
> Let us see what Christian will feedback. Very funny : his first reaction
> was to tell that MikTeX is not an Msys program, probably there was a
> misunderstanding on what I meant, he certainly thought that I was
> meaning "built using the MSYS autoconfiture" (FYI, in French "confiture"
> means "jam").

Do you think thIs patch is still correct? From reading that MikTeX
mailing list msys bash does a conversion from the colon style to the
semicolon style, but not exactly the way that MikTeX needs it to be.
Hence wouldn't it be better to use the semicolon style in the first
place?

For reference, what you wrote in a bug report:
https://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/bugs/2400/